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NATHAN PIERCE WEBSTER
Nathan Pierce Webster, the fifth son and tenth child of John and Hannah (Cummings) Webster, was born in Pelham, N. H., May 19, 1835.
In his seventh year his parents removed to Amherst, N. H., and when he was twelve they returned to Hudson. He was educated at the public schools in Amherst and Hudson and a private academy at Hudson Center. While in his minority he worked with his father on the farm at Bush hill and one season on a farm in Dracut, Mass. In the later years he spent the winters at making shoes with some of his brothers, in a small shoe shop at the home- stead.
In 1857, at the age of twenty-two years, he was em- ployed at quarrying and cutting stone in Vinal Haven, Me. In 1858, he engaged in the periodical business in Boston, which he pursued with success for several years.
May 17, 1860, he married Susan M. Morrison, daugh- ter of Samuel and Achsah (Davis) Morrison, born in Hud- son, November 27, 1838. The fruit of this marriage was one son, Brinton M. Webster, born in East Cambridge, Mass., October 6, 1864. Susan Webster died October 6, 1864. He married, second, Josephine E. Rollins, daughter of Hiram Rollins, of Chelsea, Mass., born February 29, 1840. They had two children: Moses R., born in Hud- son, April 24, 1879, and Adele G., born May 17, 1880, and died July 21, 1897.
WILLARD H. WEBSTER, 1837-1869
591
PERSONAL SKETCHES
In 1866, Mr. Webster, engaged in business with his brother, John C. Webster, at Danbury Depot, N. H. They kept a large store, including groceries and a variety of other goods. He remained in Danbury two years, until 1868.
In 1869, he and his brother, Willard H. Webster formed a copartnership in the grocery business in Hudson. Willard Webster died November 23, 1869. He then as- sumed the full ownership and management of the store, which he conducted with success until 1892, when by rea- son of declining health he sold out his business to George G. Andrews.
He represented the town of Hudson in the Legislature in 1882. He was postmaster from November 15, 1869, to July 24, 1878, and from April 14, 1879, to July 23, 1892, more than twenty-two years in all. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Baptist church. Although fond of hunting and fishing, he never permitted sport to interfere with his business. His integrity as an honest man was beyond question by all who knew him. He died January 28, 1893. His wife, Josephine, died January 30, 1907.
WILLARD H. WEBSTER
Willard H. Webster, son of John and Hannah (Cum- mings) Webster, was born in Pelham, N. H., March 22, 1837. £ In 1841, the family removed to Amherst, N. H., and in 1846, to Hudson. Willard was instructed in the public schools in Amherst and Hudson, and a private acad- emy at Hudson Center.
He married, June 9, 1859, Sophia C. Foster, daughter of David and Sophia (Coburn) Foster, of Hudson, born June 6, 1839. A daughter, Ida S., was born to them July 18, 1860. His wife, Sophia, died November 15, 1860, and this daughter was brought up by her grandmother, Mrs. Foster. He married, second, October 19, 1863, Addie M.
592
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Walton, of Maine, born March 12, 1843. The following children resulted from this marriage: George Walton, born August 31, 1864; Melville Trevett, born May 6, 1866, died September 13, 1867; and Minnie Louise, born February 21, 1869.
Mr. Webster was brought up by his father to assist him on the farm, and for a short time he made shoes. For several years after he attained his majority he was engaged in the newspaper work in Boston, with three of his broth- ers. In the winter of 1867, while caring for his parents on the farm in Hudson, his youngest brother, Orrin P. Web- ster, then doing a successful business in Boston, came to his father's in January, and died of tuberculosis, February 3,1867.
Willard immediately removed to Boston to save his brother's business from going to ruin by default. He re- turned to Hudson in September of the same year, but not until after having received into his system, in some way, the germs of the "white plague." He had been a young man with a strong will and a great ambition, and had in- herited a very strong constitution.
In the spring of 1878, he entered the grocery business in Carnes' store at the Bridge. He was appointed post- master of the Hudson office, September 21, 1868. He, with his brother, Nathan P. Webster, formed a firm in the grocery business in the old store at the Bridge, in the spring of 1869. He struggled against the progress of the disease for more than two years, but his iron constitution and his indomitable will and ambition could not prevail. He died November 23, 1869, thirty-two years of age, and a noble young man in the prime of life, universally loved and respected.
GENERAL INDEX
Accident on Pelham electric rail-
way . . 506, 507 Agriculture of Hudson 24 Aix la Chapelle, treaty of . . 226 Alarm of Ticonderoga . 257-260 Albany, march to . 228
Alvirne memorial chapel, 457-460 summer residence, 467, 524
Ameriscoggin Indians . . . 35, 55 Ammunition required of towns, 225 Amoskeag canal . . 511
falls 33,393 camping-place . 71
fishing at . 29, 39
Andrews' hall .
. 478, 479
Anecdotes of Wonnalancet . . 40
Area of town of Hudson, 17, 293 (2)
Association test .
.
. 236, 237
names of signers, 237-239 Atwood, Mrs. Electa, bequest, 457 Ayers village . 505
Back road
186, 187
Lowell road . . 488, 493, 494
Baker Bros., store
. 520
Baker street
497 (2)
Baldwin's bridge
484
Baldwin house
374
Banns, publishing of
356
Baptist church . .
. 428, 433-444
society . . 217, 221 (3), 222
Barbarity of the English against the
Indians
52, 53
Example of Temple Bar, 53 Barrett's hill . . 23, 32 (2), 363, 378, 380, 489, 492
Barrett's hill road, 491, 494 (2), 495' 496 (2)
Barrett, "Jim," place
308
Barrett place
179, 362
Barrington, settlement of
49
Batchelder place
492
Battles of the Civil War .
. 280,
282, 287
Bean porridge
345
Beards
354
Beaver brook . . 24,91, 130, 145(2),
146, 151, 153, 155, 374, 484, 492
Beef tax
248
Belknap place
489
road
489
Bell, church
437
Bennington appeal
259
Hudson men, 242, 260
pay roll
260, 261
Bill of rights
249
Bills of credit .
360
Biographical sketches
297-315,
569-592
Blodget canal .
511
Blodgett cemetery . . 86, 106, 121,
169,177, 195, 313, 320, 374, 414,
415, 485, 488
farm
. 85, 86, 119
garrison .
. 72, 83-85, 87,
118, 169
Joseph, place
315 (2)
Bloody Brook battle
76
Board of public works, Nashua
407 (3)
Boating on the Merrimack
.
. 403
Boots, with tops
337
593
594
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Boston Bridge company . . . 407
Boston & Maine railroad . . . 502
Boston & Northern street railway 406, 407
Boundary disputes . 88, 137-146, 149-154, 189
Hudson of . . . 17, 154
Nottingham West . 484, 485, 495
pine " F" . . . . 145 (2)
Bounties paid soldiers in Civil
War . . . . 274 (5), 275, 291
Bounty on wolves
22
Indian scalps 52
Bowman road .
310, 490
Box shop
. 527
Breaking roads
353
Break-neck hill road
. 496
Brenton's Farm . . 31 (2), 33, 82, 129 (2), 130, 137, 144
Brenton land .
116
Brick church, when built . 448, 522
Bridges
.399-522
Bridge road
494
Bridle road
492
Brown University
. 218
Brunswick, Me., depredation . . 50 Bunker Hill, Hudson men at . 243, 255, 256 (2), 257
Burbank farm
164
Burgoyne's fleet
257
Burnett place
310
Burial grounds (See Cemeteries) 21
Burying ground of Indians . . 104,
197, 201
Burns hill
75
place
314
road
186
Burse road
491
Bush hill . . 23,125-127, 165, 171, 181, 182, 309, 314, 378, 490, 491, 493
district .
. 320, 379
road . . 320, 381, 490, 492
Cambridge church
83
platform
204
Canada expedition
229
Canal boats
511, 512
street bridge, Nashua . . 395
Candle making
341
sticks
342
Canibas Indians
51, 52
Canobie Lake park
506 (2)
Canoe trip, a long
164
Carding mill
363
wool
. 518
Carleton farm .
111, 112
Carnes' blacksmith shop
. 516
grocery store
517
store building
. 520
Catholic cemetery . . 105, 108, 420,
421, 500
Cavalry, Hudson men in .
.287
Cemetery, Blodgett
86, 121
Center
383
Hills Farms
174
Senter
307
South Nashua
. 169
history of, . 411-422
unknown dead,421,422
(See Burial Grounds) Census (See Population)
Centennial anniversary, Baptist
442-444
Chain pumps
. 349
Chamberlain-Paugus tradition . 66,
67 (See footnote, 67)
Charlestown, Mass
75
Old, No. 4
228
Charter of King Charles
. 137
Chase hill
127, 180, 381
place
123, 311, 491
(John) place
315
Check lists
540-550
Chester, settlement of
49
Church affairs unsettled
213
extension society
449
heating house
208
595
GENERAL INDEX
Church history (See Different De-
nominations ; also Meet- ing Houses)
lot deeded to town . 222 (2)
services
208
in open air
218
Cider mills
. 339
Civil conflict in New England, 48, 49 War, Hudson's part in . 273 amount paid 274
beginning of hostilities . 276
bounty .
274 (5), 275
contributions
. 275
drafted men .
290 (2)
important battles in which Hudson men were engaged 277, 278, 279, 281, 287 not drafted but furnished substitutes . . . 290, 291 private subscriptions . . 275 relief, soldiers' families, 274 soldiers' aid society . . 275 soldiers in the army,276-292
Clerk of town, . . 94, 142, 169, 551, 553, 554
Clocks
346
Clothing mill
363
Cohas brook
33
(See Suskayquetuck)
Colburn farm .
. 122, 123, 312
land .
.
. 121, 122, 176
(Thomas) place
. 313
Cold Friday
369
summer
369
Colonists, loss of life
58
Committee of inspection
239,
240-244
safety
236, 237,
240, 243, 244
" to set value" on pro-
visions . . . 241, 246
Commons . .. 195; 381, 382 Congregationalists in Hudson, 182, 183, 201, 202 (2), 203 (2), 204, 205 (3)
Congregationalists union with Pres- byterians, 210, 214, 215, 218 (4), 223, 428-433
house
515
parsonage
433
Connecticut river campaign .
. 228
Constables, 1731-2 .
.119
Constitutional convention 560, 561
(2)
Corn rate .
247, 248, 249 (2)
Continental money . . . 240, 241
alarm over situation, 241,
245, 248, 360, 361
tax
248
Cooking, old time
333
stoves
335
Corey's ferry
171, 401
Corliss hill
320, 488
school house
380
Corrugated metal company . . 404
County of Hillsborough
.
. 372
road . . 120, 486, 489, 493,
494, 511
Cows
293
Crime-see Murder.
Cromwell's falls
18
Cross farm
108
house
106
Crown Point army rations, 230, 257
expedition, 228 (2), 229
road
229
Cummings farm
102
house
105
ferry
113, 199
tavern
106, 173
(Eleazer, Jr.) farm . 110,
111, 178, 510
(Ephraim) house . 125
farm .
.126
(Josiah) farm .
. 115
(William) farm
.109
Cummings-Darrah house
173
Curtis farm
148
deed of
148
596
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Currency, terms of
361
Customs of early settlers, 331-352
Cutler farm . 363
road
297 (2)
Daniels & Gilbert store
522
Dark day, 1780
368
days of the Revolution, 250-
252, 258-260
Davenport meadow . . . 358, 483
Davis farm . 111, 112 (2), 165, 320
ferry . .
. 385
(Nathaniel) place
. . 320
Deaths in Dunstable during Indian
wars
55-57
Declaration of rights
. 246
plan of government, 247, 249
Decoy point
62
Deed, Nathaniel Hills .
134, 135
Deer keepers
. 22 (3)
Delegates to General Court, 557- 559. (See Representatives, 559 -561)
Deposition of parents of Capt. John Lovewell regarding loss of life in old Dunstable . . . 55-56 analysis of account . . 56
Derry lane
. 485
road .
106, 320, 485
part of, 486, 491, 493, 495,
496 (2), 497 (3), 501, 511
"Dipping candles"
. 341
Discovery hill
74, 75
(See Burns' hill)
District meetings . . 142, 143, 552
Doctors-see Physicians
Dooley farm
304
Dover massacre
50
Dracut boundary
. . 124, 144, 145
next Tyngsboro . 146
corner
154
line .
. 161, 184, 485
Dummer's war
50
Dunstable area
88, 89
deserted
72
grant of
88
inhabitants of
93
in Litchfield . 129, 137 in the Indian wars . 46, 51,53-55
land in
121
line
153
loss of life in wars,55-56
loss of population 58, 403
massacre near Nashua
River
.53-55
old line .
144
petition
147
population, 1680, 55, 56,
57 (3), 58
Dutch oven
334
Dutton's ferry
178, 399, 400
Duty Farm
. 306
Early settlers, character of .
.20
Eaton farm
172, 298
Echo Rebekah Lodge
481, 482
Eclipses of the sun .
. 370, 371
Elections,change in time of, 560, 561
Electric cars . 406 (2), 408, 503, 508
railway
. 426
England and France at war . . 47 Differences taken to New England 48
Elmhurst
177, 315, 320
Embargo act
267
Emery homestead
305
Endicott survey
137
English currency
361
Equal suffrage
327
Farewell address of Passaconna-
way .
.30
Farms cemetery
412, 485 (2)
Farms district
320, 380
The
.379
Farm methods, old times
357
tools
345
597
GENERAL INDEX
Farmington, Me., scene of Indian mission .49
Ferry, first across the Merrimack
105, 171 (3), 178 (2), 239, 385, 399, 401, 510
house
. 171, 401, 510
road, 106 (2), 166, 171, 399,
400, 426, 491, 498, 510, 511
street
. 489, 493, 496, 511
Fight brook
64
"Fine meadow"
358
Fire, burning of Methodist meeting-
house
447
Fireplaces
331
First Methodist Episcopal church 522
First meeting-house . . . 183-192
First settlers of Hudson .
.
. 48
civil troubles . 49, 79, 80 (2)
First white child born in town . 84
Fish
21, 22 (4), 23, 512
wardens
377
Fisher lawsuit .
220
Five cent limit
313
Fletcher fund
449, 450
garrison
83, 87
Floyd, (Lucinda W.) donation, 450
place
314
Ford cemetery
413
farm
126
house
126
Forests, early
19
last of primeval trees . 20
to-day
19
waste of .
20
Fort Edward, defence of . .
229
Sumter, capitulation of . 276
William Henry, massacre, 228
Foster cemetery wall
.
. 416, 417
fund
423, 424
Foxcroft land
116
French and Indian War . 225-230
hated by Mohawk Indians
55
French manufactory
364
Freshet of 1818 .
392
1824 .
.393
1839
393
1841
.393
1843
395
1852
395
1862
396
1895
396
1896
396, 397
Friction matches
332
Frog Corner district
321, 380
Fruit
19
Fryeburg, Me.
63
Fulled cloth
338
Fuller farm .
176
Funeral charge
217
Gage, (John) place
124
Game
21,22
Gardner survey
137
Garrison farm .
303
houses in Dunstable . 72,
80, 82, 83 (2), 85, 87 (3)
Genesee flour .
351
Gerrish lot
121
meadow
358
Gillis place .
.
315, 510, 514
Goffe's falls (Pokechuous), 33, 508
Gold-diggers of '49
355
Gowing (Samuel) farm
310
Gospel, support of .
249
(See Minister's Rates)
Gould, (Joseph) place
310
Government, plan of . . . 244, 249
unsettled .
48
Grandfather's clock
346
Grange building .
522
charter members .
. 474
Hudson, instituted, 474- 480
National
473
New Hampshire
473
Masters .
475
598
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Grange, places of meeting, 475-479
Grant of land, first . . . 74, 88, 92.
to Passaconnaway . . 32, 34
to Wonnalancet
. 37
Grass of pioneer days
19,20
Great freshet of 1841
394
1896
396
snowstorm, 1888
397
Greeley, (Ezekiel) house
131
(Jackson E.) house . 305.
-Martin store, see Greeley, Martin, Webster, Andrews, Daniels & Gilbert.
place .
209
public library . 463
(Samuel) house, 170, 308, 374
store .
513, 517
Gregorian calendar
371
Green Mountain road 230
Grist mills
. 364
(See Mills)
Groves road 497
Gumpas pond
.
. 124, 125 (2), 310
Hadley mill .
362, 364, 514
-Willoughby mill, 515, 527
Hale farm
. 305
Hamblet's ferry
493 (3), 510
Hardy's Corner
511
farm
171
ferry .
171, 401, 485
house
510
road
494
(Zachary)
farm
514
Haselton farm
306 (2)
road
127, 488, 492
Haverhill road
491
Haying in old time
. 357-
-360
Herbs
. 347
Highways and byways . . 488-501 (See Roads)
fences .
. 356
repairs of
. 246, 247
High water, 1862
. 396:
Hills Farms cemetery, 174, 4 .1, 413 deed, 100, 107, 111 (2), 112 (2), 116
enumerated . . . 136
ferry . . 116, 117, 400
first survey .
74
garrison
72
grant
97,102
second survey . 74, 75 78, 79, 82 (2), 86, 98, 100
settlers on farm . 116,
118, 131, 132, 136
(2), 143, 172, 189
tablet . . . 82, 83, 87,
113, 132, 166
visited by Paugus . 73, 82 (2)
Hills meadow, 75, 78, 79 (3), 85, 169, 358, 381
meeting-house . 193, 194 (2), 200, 201
memorial library . 470-472
building, 464
mills
. 363
Row . 82, 129-136, 174, 303,
304, 378, 380
district
. 321
(Ezekiel) farm
132
(James) farm
132
(Joseph) farm . 136, 173, 178,
301, 303
(Franklin) farm
134, 305
(Nathaniel) farm
303
Homespun clothes
337
Homesteads
297-315
Howard's farm, Duns able, . . 122
Horses, number in town
. 293
Horse rakes
360
sheds (meeting house)
. 196
Howe road .
493
Hudson, a frontier town
225
boundary
154
599
·GENERAL INDEX
Hudson bridge 497
name 158
1: perils from Indians
. 225
population . . 155-157 Center burying ground, 416 cemetery . 418, 419, 420
cemetery associa- tion 419
district .
320
library
461
school
330
post-office . .
518
Commandery . . 479, 482 free public library . 466- 472
Lodge, I. O.O. F. . . 478,
479 (2), 480
men in the Civil War
First regiment . . . 276
Third regiment . . 277
Fourth regiment . . 278
Seventh regiment . 281
Eighth regiment . . 282
Ninth regiment . . 283
Tenth regiment . . 284 Twelfth regiment . 285 Thirteenth regiment, 286 First regiment, N. H. artillery . . 288, 289 sharpshooters . .. 279 Company G sharpshoot- ers . . 280
other service . 289-291
enlistments . . 291 casualities . . 291, 292 honorably discharged,
292
men in the Mexican War, 292
Spanish-American
War, . . . 292
Pelham & Salem electric railway . 505-508
Hudson street railway company,507 village . . . . 509-529 water company . . . 528 works company, 527,
528 (2)
Ice break
403, 511
Incorporation of town . 142, 143 (2) ballot 143
Independent Order Odd Fellows, 478, 479 (2), 480, 481
Indian and French War . 230-255 Indian Head company . . . . 403 Indians, Ameriscoggins at Nashua, 55
at Nashua
103
Pennacook .
38
Souhegan
38
bounty on scalps
52
burying ground at Hudson, 104, 105
Canibas tribe
. 51, 52
character
.
. 40, 43, 49
Christian, the friendly red man 50 . conduct during King Phil-
ip's War .
. 39-41
cornfields
105
depredations in Dunstable, 55, 56, 57 (3)
Nashua .
. 54, 55
cost in lives
.
. 58
in local history
.
18, 26
kill "Goody" Cummings, 99
massacre at Dover . 39, 40
Mohawks not at Nashua, 55
plague
. 27
religion
38, 39
Sokoki
51, 52
armed by whites . 52
Toby, pilot for Lovewell, 60 tribes 38
visit Nashua
103
warfare . . 58, 59, 225, 226
wrongs . . 42-45, 46, 47
600
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Inhabitants of Hudson, 1733 . 96, 97 (See Population)
Innholder
. 247
Intercine troubles affect the colon-
ists
49
Inventory of products and resources
of Hudson
. 510 (4)
Invoice of 1793
293
Iron bridge
522
Island at mouth of Nashua river, 78
of Wickasauke .
. 18
Items of interest .
362-375
Itinerant shoemaker
336
Jackson manufacturing company,
403
Johnson road
491
Julian calendar
371
Justice of the peace
355
Kancamagus .
27, 28
sachem of the Pennacooks, 41
Kelley's ferry . . 239, 307, 400, 491
tavern
. 239, 510
Kennebec Indians-See Canibas
Kerosene
. 342
Kidder district
321, 380
road
321
" King's Highway, the"
177
King Philip
42
King Philip's conduct of Wonnalan- cet . . 39, 40
general effect, 41, 46, 47 last stand . . 46, 47, 52 wife and son . . . . . 53 (See King Philip's War) 18, 39
William's War
47
Kitchen "cooker"
. 334
Lafayette in New Hampshire, 372, 373
Lakeview
146, 504
Lamprey river, troubles .
. 50
Land owners (note)
163
Law committee chosen . . 241, 246
regulating prices
. 241
Lawful money .
360, 361
Laws of the colony, first codifica-
tion .
76
Lawrence Corner . 32 (2), 145, 172, 384, 492 (4)
road
. 489, 492
Lexington, muster at the Center, 252
news of
242
volunteers for war, 252
Libraries public
461
Greeley
463
Hudson Center
. . 461, 462
Nottingham West social, 461
Library building
. 467-470
lot
. 464-466
park
384-387, 511
street
. 496, 498 (3)
tablet
. 387
Librarians .
462, 463, 464 (5)
Lights and lamps
340
Linen fabrics
. 91, 92, 339
Litchfield township
129
area
130
boundary
129, 130
line . 145, 147, 154, 161
original proprietors129
part of Dunstable, 129
taxes
148
territory .
148
rendezvous of troops,
229
roads .
495, 496
Little bridge
171
Massabesic pond, 23, 377, 378
(See Robinson's pond)
Tarnic pond
526
Littlehale's meadow
188
Londonderry claim . 93, 94, 147-
156, 232, 244
(See Londonderry, grant of), 89
annexation, 209, 211 boundary, 92, 93,145, 147, 148
601
GENERAL INDEX
Londonderry, charter of .
. 91
first house . . 91 line, 150, 160, 202,499 manufactures 91, 92 meeting-house . 149 pioneers of . . . 90 road . 493, 494, 497 (2), 498
settlement of . . 49
(See Scotch-Irish)
Long pond . . 144-146, 483
Lovewell's expedition to Pequaket, 60-63
fight . . . 57, 63-73
relief .
. 71-72
second expedition . 109 men . . 60, 61, 64 (3), 73 war, beginning of . 49, 51, 53
Lovewell farm
123, 124
garrison
72
house
124
town, grant of
113
Lowell and Suburban street railway, 504, 508
back road . .
. . 488, 493
road . 177, 493, 494, 497 (2) 498
Loyalist (See Tory)
Lutwych's brook, scene of massa-
cre
54, 57
ferry
113
Macadam road .
500 (2)
McCann place
491
Madawaska
. 51
Malden, Mass.
75
Mammoth road
124
Manchester & Nashua electric rail-
way . 507 Manchester street railway . . 508
Market prices for provisions fixed
by court
241
Marsh farm .
110
(Fitch P.) farm
. 41
Marsh homestead
307
road .
492
Marshall mill
363
Martin store
.513, 522
Massacre of Lieut. French and
party
. 53
Middle names
335
tenor
360
Middlesex canal
511 (2)
Mill brook
. 362
Mills, 121, 362 (4), 363 (3), 364, 515
Militia
225
Military affairs in
New England,
1777
258-260
spirit .
225
Mine Falls canal
402
Minister, settling first
183
afterwards . 184, 200
rates . 202-206, 208 (2),
209, 210 (2), 211, 212(2),
213 (2), 215, 217, 219,
220 (4), 221 (7)
last entry .
22
tax (See Rates)
Minute men of Hudson . 252-256 Mission of Norridgewock . 49-51 Mister, title of 355 Meadow, Hills . 78 (2), 79 (4), 358 haying 358, 359
Meadows
. 19,20
Meeting-house, first
183-191
description of . . . 188
destruction of, 190, 191
when built
. . . 181
where located . 187, 188
second . .
190, 191
dimensions
196
horse sheds
196
location
197
moving
197 (2)
new
.199
new location
198
repairs
198 (6)
vote to sell . 199, 200 (2)
602
HISTORY OF HUDSON
Meeting-house, last built by town 200
pastor of
200
second Congregational . 201
location
. 201
Presbyterian
.206, 207
North . 207, 208, 210 (3), 212
new
. 217
repairs on old . 218 (4)
Methodist 445, 448, 449, 515
Congregationalist . . . 515 Melendy box shop . . 363, 364, 527
Menotomy
308
Merrill meeting
201
(See Second meeting-house) road . 489
Merrimack river . 17 (2), 41, 88, 129
boating
. 403
ferries
399
ignorance of its course 137-140
surveys . . 138-140, 202, 511
scenery
. 529
(See Freshets)
to Keene, road . . 230
valley . .
. 43-45
Merry Meeting Bay massacre . 50
Messer place
. 301
Methodist Episcopal church . 444- 452
honored names
454
house
.515
memorial windows, 454, 455
pastors .
. .
455-457
quarter centennial .
. 453
Mexican War .
292
Moderators .
. 551, 552 (3), 550
Modes of travel
344
Mohawk Indians
52
(See Christian and Friendly In-
dians) .
55
Monson garrison, defense of
. 227
Moose, last in town
23
swamp
23, 381
Morey farm
148
Morrison farm
. 165, 320
Mowing machine, first
. 360 (4)
Murders
389
Musquash bridge road
486
brook . . 201, 311, 320 mill, 121, 188, 313, 362 dam 483
meadow
358
pond
. 24
school
320, 379
Muster rolls of 1745 to 1760 . 227- 230
1775
253-255
sketches of the men, 255- 256
Ticonderoga soldiers . 258
Nacook brook
24
mill .
. 121, 201, 313
road
488
Narragansett, battle of
77
Nashaway plantacon
76
Nashua, city of .
25
canal and locks
403
derivation of name . 377
massacre, 1724 . . . 53
and Lowell railroad . . 514 and Manchester electric rail- way . . 507
and Rochester railroad . 419, 447, 502
and Rochester railroad . 521 electric railway . . 505, 508 garrison or "trading house" 377
Indians
26
Manufacturing company
402, 403
river
376, 402
canal
403, 512
lower dam
403
locks .
403
street railway company . 503
603
GENERAL INDEX
Natticook brook
54
massacre of . . 53, 55, 57
Indians
. 26
lands
129 (2)
line
129, 184
valley
376
Navy, men in the
. 289
New England freedom
225
Newfound meadow
. 358
Newmarket, formerly Lamprey Riv-
er 50
"New tenor'
360
Nipmuck Indians
27
Noon marks
346
Norridgewock, mission of
. 49
atrocities of the Eng-
lish (note)
50
expedition
50
North End common
382
settlers
. 298-307
. 200 (2),
account of raising, 208
first minister
208,
209 (2)
lot .
. 209, 211, 212 (2),
214, 217, 221, 222
pew holders
. 223, 224
house
429, 493
Nottingham (original) settlement of 49, 88
area .
130
boundary
94
boundary
141-146
charter
93, 94, 128
first town meeting .
. 94
incorporation
93
loss of territory
189
officers
. .
. 551, 552
residents of, 1733 . 96, 97
taxes
. 148
meeting-house . 194, 414
Nottingham West . . 147, 149 (2),
150, 151, 155, 156
Nottigham West, area
. 293
change of name
158
charter
159-161
families
163-182
line . . 166, 189, 190, 225
men in the French and
Indian wars . 226-230
officers of
552
taxpayers, 1775
230
1779. . 232
meeting-house . 191, 194,
320, 414
in the Revolution . 236- 268
social library
.
. . 461
war of 1812, 270-272, 364, 399, 417 (2), 292
Number Four Fort . ... 228,291 school house, 194, 445
nine school house . 305 (3)
one school house
. 200
Nutfield
. 89
Official roster
551-567
"Old ark"
515,516
"Old College, The"
. 168
Old and new style of computing
time
371
Old and new tenor .
360
Oldest mill in Hudson
362
Old oaken bucket
349
Old South school house
380
Oldtime cooking
333
Orchards, acres of .
293
Orthodox (See Congregationalists)
Ossipee fort .
60, 69, 71
river
.51
Otternick brook,
derivation
of
name . . 24, 308, 362, 377 (2),
493
pond . . 23 (2), 24 (3), 75,
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